Speakers

Matthew C. Halteman

“Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan”

Mat Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University, MI, and fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. In addition to being the author of Hungry Beautiful Animals,: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, he is also the co-editor of Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating.

Tim Holland

“The Art of Vegan Cheese and Meat Making”

Tim Holland is the founder of Midcoast Vegan in Brunswick, Maine. Midcoast Vegan specializes in fermented and cultured plant-based cheeses, seitan based meats and a rotating selection of ready to eat foods.

Jeff Peterson

“Becoming vegan or vegetarian: If I can do it, you can do it. THAT VEGAN THING”

Jeff Peterson grew up a meat eater and dairy connoisseur living in California until 1990. Since then, the morning news anchor lived in New Hampshire, Colorado, Louisiana and Maine eating a standard American diet. That all changed in 2012, when he took the plunge and decided to go vegan. The reason for switching up what he puts in his body, at first, had nothing to do with becoming healthier and even animal rights.